David Soutter talks to a panel re. Victoria Ayling and the National Front etc., & her responses – In Grimsby !

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as I have already recently stated I have been rather busy on other issues recently and realising that Ukip’s position in this election was, as I have always predicted, was increasingly irrelevant in domestic elections even after 22 years!

That said I do believe it is my duty to maintain the archive on Ukip as I have during almost 3,000 posts on this web site.

With that in view here are some details regarding Victoria Ayling, Ukip’s outspoken PPC for Grimsby, and the comments of Ukip’s executive staffer David Soutter – Besides the mainstream media article republished below I have 3 MP3 files recordings of the meeting David Soutter addressed regardimng Victoria Ayling’s involvement with the national Front and her seemingly totally dishonest claims regarding her son’s involvement in military action in Afghanistan and her claims of his having been injured!

Her answers, as recorded, are most ‘interesting’!

I shall add these files to this posting as soon as I can puzzle out how to upload MP3 files to this site! As you are no doubt well aware I am almost totally TechNoCrass – any offers of help would be welcome!

IF you have the ability to load these files to You Tube or some other site, for public use, (with a referal back to this post) before I have managed to work out how to load it, do contact me and I will supply a copy of the files for your public use – Just send me a request by eMail with your verifiable name and phone number (confidentially) and I’ll contact you with a view to supplying the files.

Here is the 8GB sound file of comment by David Soutter and the efforts of Victoria Ayling to justify her behaviour:

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Thanks for any help you can provide. Also for any further information YOU may feel should be added to the archive to assist people now and in the future who may be thinking of risking a vote for Ukip as a protest against the more responsible available parties.

‘Send them back home’ Ukip candidate’s ‘false claim over son blown up in Afghanistan’

Victoria Ayling said she spent five months nursing son back to health

Lieutenant Colonel Ron Shepherd has launched investigation

He raised questions over whether she misrepresented her son’s situation

She is running for the key election seat of Great Grimsby and denies claims

The Ukip candidate exposed by The Mail on Sunday after calling for all immigrants to be sent home is at the centre of a row over claims she falsely said her son was injured in Afghanistan.

Victoria Ayling, who is running for the key election seat of Great Grimsby, made the comments after being confronted by her local party over her non-attendance at Ukip meetings.

After saying it was because she had spent ‘five months nursing her son back to health after being blown up in Afghanistan’, Lieutenant Colonel Ron Shepherd, the leader of Ukip’s North East Lincolnshire group, launched an investigation.

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Row: UKIP politician Victoria Ayling, with party leader Nigel Farage, who is being questioned over claims about son

Astonishingly, he has raised questions about whether she has misrepresented her son’s situation. Mrs Ayling denies that is the case.

It is the latest controversy to hit the 55-year-old, who in 2013 was caught on camera calling for all immigrants to be repatriated, saying: ‘I just want to send the lot back.’ She claimed her remarks had been taken ‘out of context’.

Mrs Ayling fought Great Grimsby at the 2010 Election as a Tory, coming within 714 votes of a shock victory against Labour veteran Austin Mitchell, who is now standing down. The seat is high on Ukip leader Nigel Farage’s hitlist.

Controversy: Victoria Ayling on front page of Mail on Sunday

Lieut-Col Shepherd set out his findings in a memo dated Monday December 8, which read: ‘I understand her son Anthony Bowles is stationed in Woolwich as part of the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment. I have spoken with the Adjutant of 1 RA who cannot release details to me. Anthony’s grandmother Brenda has stated he’s not been blown up.’

Shortly afterwards, Mrs Ayling was confronted by local Ukip councillor Matt Stinson about whether her son had been injured. The incident took place at a meeting attended by David Soutter, whose job is to vet Ukip candidates.

Mrs Ayling fought back, saying: ‘It is a private matter and nothing to do with you, Matt. My son had problems in Afghanistan and is recovered and back in service.

‘If anybody in the Army is giving out mistruths or anything about my son I want to know their name – they have got no right to talk about another soldier’s private life.’

Last night, this newspaper was called anonymously by a man who said he was a soldier who had served alongside Mr Bowles. The unidentified caller said Ukip’s Grimsby party had been unfair to Mrs Ayling – because she had kept the matter quiet to protect her son.

He added Mr Bowles had been caught up in a ‘very bad situation’, which he declined to describe.

Lieut-Col Shepherd said last night: ‘You’ll have to talk to Victoria about that.’ Mrs Ayling said: ‘This is a private matter.’

Yet More Ukip Corruption In Lincolnshire, yet another rigging of selection process – this time in Ukip’s No. 2 target Westminster Seat!

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yet further provenance of the total corruption of the process of democracy within Ukip – a circumstance repeated time and time again making a total mokery of the much vaunted principles of democracy in Ukip.

There is absolutely no doubt that there has been constant and continuous rigging of Ukip selection and election processes. Ukip has been utterly dishonest in its due process and has not only rigged selections and elections but has used them to steal money from their members – offering democracy and votes to members who had put their names forward with various payments required to obtain the right to stand for el;ection!

Corruption in Ukip and overt fraud has been endemic, whether as when Douglas Denny dishonestly acted for Nigel Farage to do all he could to ensure Farage was elected leader – a stunning act of corruption and dishonesty from someone supposedly empowered as the Returning Officer for the election with the duty to ensure ‘fair play’ and adherence to the rules yet himself cheating for Nigel Farage directly!

Douglas Denny was caught out, in no small part by this blog which exposed the corruption, subsequently he was removed as Returning Officer by the NEC, regardless of his hissy fit and lies to try to cover his tracks. Douglas Denny’s removal however (which is fully documented despite intervention dishonestly to try to remove all the evidence given by my blogs) However unfortunately by that time the damage was done and the election of Farage was nothing more than a corrupt coronation.

There are many more examples of the corruption of Ukip which have beenconclusively proven – below is just yet another example:

UKIP’s oft-burnished reputation as a democratic grassroots party is set to take a battering with its own members — after the party’s top committee intervened to install one of their own number as the candidate for their #2 target seat.

With polling from Survation giving the party a massive 20-point lead, 22 year-old councillor and National Executive Committee (NEC) member Robin Hunter-Clarkeis set to become the youngest MP in more than 30 years if he prevails in the Lincolnshire seat of Boston and Skegness, which is second only to Clacton in its demographic receptiveness to UKIP.

But emails leaked to Scrapbook lay bare a conspiracy amongst party top brass to install Hunter-Clarke as candidate. The day before the selection hustings was to take place, shortlisted candidates received a message from a local party official notifying them of “an anomalous situation”:

“I greatly regret that this situation has arisen and I hope that you will appreciate that it has done so solely as a result of the intervention of the NEC.

Apparently they’d decided to unilaterally install Hunter-Clarke on the shortlist, with corrupt former Tory minister Neil Hamilton withdrawing his name:

“The shortlist was duly drawn up and was submitted to the NEC. Unusually, they made adjustments to the list and one name was withdrawn and was replaced by another.

And it gets even more stinky. It turns out that Hunter-Clarke was not only on the NEC, which nobbled proceedings in his favour, but also the local committee which drew up the original shortlist in August — meaning he had seen his opponents’ CVs and had the inside track on their strengths and weaknesses.

The local party proposed sharing CVs amongst the other hopefuls — but UKIP’s head of candidates David Soutter didn’t respond until, errrr, the day before the selection meeting:

“Clearly, this was an undesirable situation and the only remedy seemed to be for all of you to have sight of each others’ CVs in order to create a level playing field.

“I wrote to [David Soutter] setting out the situation and suggesting the above remedy. That was 2½ weeks ago and I have just today received Mr. Soutter’s agreement as to this proposed course of action.

Hilariously, Soutter then refused to tell locals which candidate had prevailed at the meeting until a week later:

We’re currently awaiting a statement from ‘Kipper HQ, who insist the whole process has been above board.

UPDATE: UKIP statement: “Steps were taken to ensure that the selection in Boston and Skegness was a fair and balanced one. Robin Hunter-Clarke was selected by to fight the seat by an overriding and overwhelming vote by the Branch.”​

Further comments ‘e’Mailed to me adds further details to this story of typical Ukip corruption:

Robin Hunter-Clarke was not only on the NEC, which nobbled proceedings in his favour, but also the local committee which drew up the original short-list in August — meaning he had seen his opponents’ CVs and had the inside track on their strengths and weaknesses.

Hunter Clarke is of course a Farage sycophant, and he makes much of being a local lad. The problem is that he in fact lives in Chester where he is a law student. Quite how he is going to manage to keep up with his studies is anyone’s guess, let alone fulfil his responsibilities as a councillor in Lincolnshire!
Hunter Clarke faces 260 mile round trips to attend council meetings in Lincoln, and be fully available to his constituents on local matters. This appears not only to be exhausting for the young chap but potentially very expensive for the public. He has been parachuted into the Boston & Skegness parliamentary seat – without a bye or leave to the local party. Even though he has precious little experience of life (he’s still a student) he already sits on the UKIP NEC and is Chairman of a UKIP branch, and he’s a p/t councillor. Now he’s set to be a PPC for UKIP, and possibly an MP! What skills does he have to achieve such a rapid rise to prominence, apart from being a sycophant? If elected will he continue to ‘read law’ and be a p/t MP as he is a p/t councillor? Or will he become yet another career politico who will never have any first hand experience of the real world?